Nintendo is going after more unauthorized Switch shops and modders, and has asked a US District Court to subpoena busin…
  • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    364·
    7 hours ago

    Among computing hardware companies Nintendo is really second only to Apple in making sure to remind us to never buy their devices on a regular basis. Well, unless you count Sony perhaps but not sure I would count smart TVs in quite the same category.

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
      22·
      7 hours ago

      I would place Nintendo above Apple on that point. Apple hasn’t subpoenaed social media for hosting jailbreaking sections.

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
      523·
      7 hours ago

      It’s never been ok to pirate a console that is still on the market. Though, part of that is how rare it has been for emulation to be feasible for a current console. But either way, it has always been demonstrably illegal. And especially in the case of yuzu where they were completely flaunting and charging money to play games that weren’t even released yet. I honestly put most of Nintendo’s current war path on their shoulders. That’s not just riding the backs of giants, that’s climbing into their faces and flicking them… ask any insect, that is a good way to get yeeted to the ground and for the giant to stop tolerating the previously benign presence of the rest of the insects.

      Nintendo has definitely done some over reaches, but going after Switch pirates is not a good example of that.

      • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        6 hours ago

        The “why” doesn’t matter as much as how judicial precedent works. One company doing this will open the gates for many companies to start using each other for missing their products or breeching conduct. Nintendo using the justice department as their own goon squad to hunt down individual people for perceived infractions is alarming.